Senate Republicans have just introduced the “Real Jobs Plan.” As I’ve long argued, an effective jobs “plan” is a commitment to a sustained environment for long-term growth. The president’s failed proposals have repeatedly proven that “temporary and targeted” stimulus is insufficient. Moreover, his latest effort displays more interest in politics than growth.

Senators McCain, Paul, and Portman have proposed a plan that effectively targets job creation at a time when we desperately need it by incentivizing growth and repealing the job-killing Affordable Care Act and Dodd-Frank law. There is a lot here to like.

Still, inevitably there will be a war of numbers in which progressives trot out numbers from Keynesian business cycle models to argue that the strategy won’t work. To anticipate the debate, here are some of the highlights of the Real Jobs Plan and some estimates of the jobs impact: